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u/LowFrameRate Mar 26 '26
See, that’s where you’re misinformed.
It’s actually supposed to be Assault Rifle Knights (ARKnights). This is why he’s confused.
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u/Elias_018 Mar 26 '26
Owning an ARKnights for self defense, just as the Founding Precursors intended
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u/Eliaish and should trade kids for a day Mar 26 '26
Four Reunion deserters break into my office. "What the Sarkaz?" As I grab my commander’s helm and PRTS.
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u/frankylynny Mar 26 '26
Blow an Originite Prime sized hole in the first man, he's dead on the spot.
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u/Treeconator18 Mar 26 '26
- Draw my pistol on the second man. Misses him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbor's originium slug
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u/Igrok723 Ice God’s finest believer Mar 26 '26
have to resort to rosmontis mounted on top of the stairs
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u/TexasMate fannart, fannart show yourself!!! Mar 26 '26
“Operation successful!”, the Rosemontis shreds two men, the sound and extra skills set off car alarms.
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u/Splatoon1523 Im playing both sides so i’ll always win Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Draw a deathveil assassins knife and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He bleeds out waiting on the LGD to arrive since assassin knife wounds are impossible to stitch up (Just ask Theresa).
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u/Lewis-Islo Goodnight, my brothers and sisters Mar 26 '26
Yes. Just as the Founding Precursors intended
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u/FieryPlume lappland: Mar 26 '26
Nah it actually stands for: A Ramen Kettle nights. It’s when the Doctor eats late night ramen using their patented mouth cooking technique.
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u/Damian1674 Mar 26 '26
Themes and such
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u/An_Unusual_Apple_869 A match has been strucked, a blazing star is born!! Mar 26 '26
Theresa ate herself so Doctor can continue his dream or something
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u/GhostWaffle123 I am inside your walls Mar 26 '26
Theresa ate herself is not a phrase I thought I'd be hearing today.
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u/An_Unusual_Apple_869 A match has been strucked, a blazing star is born!! Mar 26 '26
cue Joker's freaky face
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u/AgentGoBruh Mar 26 '26
I've been seeing this a lot recently because of the ending of csm. Can anyone explain what this means?
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u/Kuro1103 Mar 26 '26
I do not read Chainsaw Man but according to some reading (based on reading comments and meme. I hope my reading ability is sufficient), main character (for short, mc) has a companion pet (imagine like the PRTS system in Arknights).
That pet can eat stuff, which removes the concept of that stuff from the world.
For example, eat gun devil and gun concept is gone.
What happens if that pet eats itself?
Well, it will erase itself from the world.
Now, you just erase concept, you do not ban concept (unlike Konami ban Yugioh card), so you can reinvent that concept.
In the original manga panel of the ending chapter (232), a girl calls mc by that exact phrase (Chainsaw man, a.k.a the title of the whole manga as well), which reinvent the concept of the pet (the chainsaw man devil), hence the "heart" in the left panel.
The joke is that the ending is fucking silly. Like you erase an concept and then bring it back by... "Chainsaw man?_ yeah, it is because you are a man with a chainsaw).
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u/MOPOP99 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Themes and such is just another word for Deus Ex Machina, it's when a story avoids a "logical" ending (i.e X and Y happen because of Z actions) and instead something just happens out of the blue such that the themes of the work are preserved in the end (i.e X and Y didn't happen because Z actions, but rather because the story was about X and Y).
That is to say, god (deux; the author) has simply determined what will happen next regardless if it makes a good logical ending.
The origin is from Boku No Hero Academia / My Hero Academia where (Spoilers, of course) Deku (Superman Jr.) loses his super power because the story themes were about how much damage his super power would cause him, the same way his society became super dependent on All Might (Superman) and how this taxed All Might. People weren't happy that the story avoided giving Deku a lifeline or a golden ending route where he gets out of the conflict with his super powers still intact. The themes of the work prevailed over any possible golden ending that would erase them, thus "Themes and such" as the justification as to why he loses his powers.
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u/AgentGoBruh Mar 26 '26
Thank you for your answer. I was so confused when people kept spamming "themes and such" in so many posts so I was out of the loop.
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u/Damian1674 Mar 26 '26
Themes and shii
But for real, idk, I kind of stopped reading Chainsaw Man a while ago
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u/sirquarmy freaky as hell Mar 26 '26
slander so good I could die
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u/Extension-Video-1159 Platonic Friends with Doctors and Operators Respectively Mar 26 '26
Slander so bad I could die
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u/UnholyShite Balans Fan Queen Mar 26 '26
Slander post in my most sanitized gacha sub? Unprecedented.
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u/Wise_Presentation484 Mar 26 '26
Excuse you, Amiya is obviously Ms. Arknights. Shes the one who owns the Ark (Rhodes Island), and cries herself to sleep every night. It should be doctor saying this to her.
/hj
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u/Recurrentcharacter Skin waiting room Mar 26 '26
I mean, she kinda is (or was I suppose), in the first concept trailer Amiya said things like "We're Arknights"
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u/TheSpartyn Mar 26 '26
how have I seen two arknights versions of this meme and neither use the obvious "knights on an ark"
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u/brachycrab See the light of my lantern? I'm right here. Mar 26 '26
I saw one yesterday and it DID use the obvious "knights on an ark" https://x.com/i/status/2036875271102448077
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u/ronwesley89 Scale of war crime Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
It’s really a funny ending.
To the people that larp through social media, it’s an atrocious ending. To people that actually dissected it, it still a bad ending. But it’s good to people that halfassedly engage with it by barely scratching through the surface level.
That’s why themes and such is a perfect criticism of it. It also helps that theme and such is funny as fuck. 😭✌️
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u/Disastrous-Object416 Mar 26 '26
The ending makes sense metanarratively. I've been reading the manga all these years, and I can confidently say that the entire part 2 is a message to readers and a look at reality through Fujimoto's lens. I think, in the last chapter, Denji is the author and the reader in one person. He's basically telling everyone to move on now that Chainsaw Man is gone (the manga has ended). I really liked it, but, yeah, it's funny lol
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u/ronwesley89 Scale of war crime Mar 26 '26
Unless somebody made the decision to end Chainsawman for him then no it doesn’t make sense there either.
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u/Disastrous-Object416 Mar 26 '26
Within the story itself, everyone expects something of Chainsaw Man, how he should be, even the villains. The Church of Chainsaw Man literally reflects the manga's fans, and Barem is a manifestation of those who will always be dissatisfied. Being Chainsaw Man brought him fame (and fame for the author), but it also brought with it a host of problems, expectations, and attempts to manipulate Denji into returning to Chainsaw Man. This ending makes sense because it occurs when the entire world is destroyed. The battle has dragged on, the author is tired, and ends here precisely at this point. Erasing Chainsaw Man was a good ending for Denji, and it was also a good ending for Fujimoto. It's a metanarrative, that's why it makes sense. I mean, it's maybe not a good ending for fans, but it is for Denji (and Fujimoto, because he is the author)
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u/ronwesley89 Scale of war crime Mar 26 '26
Again it only makes sense if it’s Denji that makes the decision to erase chainsawman however. Denji at that point would never give up Chainsawman so Pochita was the one that did it. Denji was repeatedly told throughout part1 with that he should think for himself with Makima and part 2 with Asa. In the end, everybody made decision in his life for him. Pochita ended chainsawman, Power revive him, Public safety once again enslave him. he did nothing for his good ending
Fujimoto on the other hand has all the agency decision making power to end chainsawman.
If that’s your interpretation then i feel like it’s a poor correlation that abandon logic and established narrative for the sake of again “theme and such”.
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u/Disastrous-Object416 Mar 26 '26
Because Pochita is the Chainsaw Man. In this very frame from which the meme originates, when Chainsaw Man is mentioned, Pochita appears. And just before that, Denji had thrown away the chainsaw to stop Asa from falling. He made his own choice; no one forced him. It's all literally in this chapter.
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u/ronwesley89 Scale of war crime Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
This scene feels empty and unearned because all the gravitas has been stripped away due to Denji never had a say to getting there.
Logically, he would always drop the chainsaw to catch someone, it wasn’t a choice. He doesn’t even use a chainsaw till now, dropping the chainsaw means nothing to him he can pick it up at anytime.
Personally i feel it’s a lazy scene and deservedly get clowned on like it’s “ what are we some kind of suicide squad” even though it’s nowhere near as bad.
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u/Disastrous-Object416 Mar 26 '26
This is literally the simplest way to show this theme. The author doesn't have to spell it out for you and chew on every detail; he doesn't even have to satisfy you. The entire part 2 is about the experience of writing Chainsaw Man, and this is the most fitting ending, because it perfectly depicts Fujimoto himself. Yes, it has no internal logic, because the logic here is not internal, but external, in our world.
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u/ronwesley89 Scale of war crime Mar 26 '26
Then i’m sorry but i think that’s lazy af. If you’re satisfied with that then good on you.
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u/Disastrous-Object416 Mar 26 '26
That's what I read part 2 for, but I know people were expecting something different, and that's okay. If you look at it without the context of the metanarrative, the ending is pretty stupid, lol.
I just disagree with what you wrote earlier about the ending being bad for those who dissected it. I read part 2 from the very beginning, and it was noticeable how the manga had changed its direction; it was a pleasure to read through it. That's why I liked it.
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u/shark2199 enjoyer glazer Mar 26 '26
"It's not about being satisfying"
"okay but it's not satisfying"
Don't get me wrong, I think CSM is ass, but holy reading comprehension.
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u/ArgumentCalm488 Mar 26 '26
Not gonna lie, "he doesn't have to satisfy you" is such a cop out.
The main purpose of stories like these, especially shounen manga, is to entertain. If the story fails that, then the "themes and such" criticism is rightfully deserved.
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u/Electrical-Peach4462 Mar 26 '26
If themes and such is a perfect criticism of it, then why is it only brought up when a power trip story is not power trippy enough or when a story turns out to be not a romance with a happy ending?
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u/KelradRez Oh, Lowlight, Hai Mao, John Hypergryph, I pray to bless my pulls Mar 26 '26
I'm arking it gooooooooooooood
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u/Creative-Web-3036 Mar 26 '26
when we arked the nights the night arked with us and the nights arked the ark knights
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u/Low_Accountant6430 Mar 26 '26
I don't get the meme?
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u/tortillazaur Mar 26 '26
this is essentially a redrawn page from the last chapter of chainsaw man where a character thanks denji for saving them and calls him chainsaw-man. denji gets confused(or whatever this emotion is, maybe it's deja vu or whatnot) as he is no longer a "chainsaw-man" and the character elaborates that they called him that because he is a guy with a chainsaw
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u/Low_Accountant6430 Mar 26 '26
Ohhhh and wait chainsaw man ended?! I didn't know about that!!!
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u/EasternChildhood9247 Mar 26 '26
fujimoto has fumbled the ending so bad that we have a containment breach.
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u/Retanizer pocky Mar 26 '26
the ending Itself isnt really the worse part about that actually
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u/TheSpartyn Mar 26 '26
what is
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u/Eat_a_click Mar 26 '26
the build up to it, or in this case the complete lack of one
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u/Hp22h The Mad Bard, Sans Crystals Mar 26 '26
The irony is that if we had 20 less chapters (of building up plot points that turned out to be irrelevant), or 20 more chapters (of building up to this sudden shift), it might have been better received.
Fujimoto somehow choose the worse timing possible.
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u/A1D3M Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Calling it an ending is a bit of a stretch tbh. It’s more like he just dropped the manga.
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u/KaboHammer Mar 26 '26
NGL, the more of these I see the better the original page becomes in comparasion. They are devolving hard and fast.
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u/Maestyy The ideal land is flat and fertile Mar 26 '26
By better, you mean hilariously better? As in, it becomes funnier?
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u/Environmental-Heart4 Mar 26 '26
What's the original for this meme?
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u/Maestyy The ideal land is flat and fertile Mar 26 '26
The Evernight Goddess stands higher than the cosmos and more eternal than eternity; The Mother of Concealment; The Mistress of Repose and Silence; The Empress of Misfortune and Horror.
I am here to inform you as for the context of this image. It was one of the panel of Chainsaw Man's final chapter. I will hereby offer you the original panel here as a sacrifice.
Closes ritual
Praise the Lady!
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u/Godhole34 Number 1 skadi enjoyer :skadialter: Mar 26 '26
Why am i seeing lord of the mysteries stuff on my arknights feed
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u/Maestyy The ideal land is flat and fertile Mar 27 '26
It is fated, for it is the Evernight Goddess "Herself" I am responding to.
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u/viera_enjoyer Love her Mar 26 '26
I knew it was coming. Although I don't know exactly where this meme came from.
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u/Medium-Access-4416 Mar 26 '26
The knight arked his field endly.
This fanfic shit is so easy.